After a week of resting, I AM BACK!  I am running a bit behind, so bear with me while I crank out some goodness here over the next few days.  :)  Be prepared for some blog lovin’ overload!!

I have known Alex since he was probably 4 or 5 years old, but little Alex, is not so little anymore.  He has always been such a sweet kid, and it just amazes me that he is a man now.  Brett and I met up with Alex to do photos and honestly, Senior boy photos make me a bit nervous.  I don’t know why, I guess because I mostly do girls and they are easy to pose….boys just seem harder.  But Alex was great, and we just had FUN the whole time.

We started off with an urban look, and it suited him so well.  He had this amazingly classic “James Dean” kinda feel.

Great smile :-)

I found this doorway and it was love at first sight.

Alex is into the totally rad “parkour”…ever heard of it?  If not, be sure to checkout parkour here and to catch some YouTube parkour goodness as well.  Here’s Alex showing us a couple of moves in a doorway, because there was no where we could find to play!

(Alex reminds me of Jason Bourne in “The Bourne Identity” in these!)

Then we headed out to my parents field which looked super cool right now.

Relaxing in the tall grasses…

Thanks Alex for hangin’ with us!

We wish you all the best in your future.  Take care of yourself, and don’t do any dangerous jumps out there. :)

When I received a call from Hannah’s Grandmother about doing her Senior photos, I was thrilled!  Hannah is very good friends with a Senior that I just did- remember Mary, the cutie who loved Audrey Hepburn and wanted part of her session in a shoe shop?  Well, Hannah is her neighbor and great friend.  Hannah is awesome.  Super sweet, fun and confident….and she is GORGEOUS!  She is also a ballerina, so she spends a lot of time practicing along with her regular Senior year stuff.  :)

We started out walking around and looking for some interesting new places….

We had just about the best light that day….it was freezing out, but you’d never know that.  She was brave in that dress!  (Her clothes were AWESOME.)

such pretty eyes….

We had fun exploring and finding light…

she was more than willing to play around with my light experiments.  :)

I have a feeling this girl will get whatever she wants out of life….

LOVE IT!  There was a guy standing nearby drooling while we shot this…he just acted like he was on the phone.  :)  HA!!!

MAJOR THANKS to my new friend Gina of Kiwi Street Studios who clued me into the next location we went to. It was just what we needed.  :)

The sun was just getting PERFECT and we rocked it out as fast as we could!

This small example gives this photo no justice….it is SO RAD and deserves to be a very large print or canvas.   Really, it deserves it.  :)  The light + the wind gently blowing her shirt = pure AWESOMENESS.

Love your smile Hannah.  :)

It has been a dream of mine to photograph a ballerina.  I have always been obsessed with the beauty, grace, strength, and discipline of a ballerina, and photographing some of that has been on my “wish list.”  When I mentioned it too Hannah, I thought she might think it was dumb/weird but she loved the idea, and was really excited!

She began with some stretching….OUCH.

so graceful….

You see those legs?  Don’t mess with her.

I think this is my favorite from the entire session.  I LOVE THIS!!!

Hannah, thanks so much for having photos taken with me!!! I know you didn’t want Senior photos because of what you have seen out there, so I hope these will change your mind about what Senior photos can be.  :) You are a wonderful person and I wish you all the best in your future.